Kent Emanuel was introduced to the media Thursday at Minute Maid Park.

The No. 74 overall pick of the 2013 MLB amateur draft will be evaluated at the Astros’ spring training complex in Kissimmee, Fla., before he begins throwing. The former North Carolina lefthander will be on an innings limit this season but the exact number hasn’t been decided.

“I haven’t touched a baseball in a couple weeks,” the 6-foot-4, 225-pound Emanuel said. “I think when I’m ready to throw in a game they’ll have me go to Tri-City. … I’m pretty sure we were talking about maybe 20 innings being my cap. I’m not exactly positive.”

Elias on Emanuel: We’re going to send him to the GCL. He hasn’t picked up a ball in a while. We’ll let him get his arm back into shape. I do expect he’ll throw some competitive professional innings this summer, probably at Tri-City. But I don’t have particular innings count in mind that any of us have agreed upon yet. It’s something that I think we’re going to let him throw for a while and get some more information about where he’s at.

On target with draft-pick signings: Absolutely. We’ve gotten our top-10 selections signed, which we feel is a big success. Obviously, they were 10 of our top targets for the whole draft class. There are still some names out there — we are hopeful we can sign one or more of them. Even if we don’t at this point, we’re very happy and pleased with the talent that we brought in with this class. … We’ve got the top-10 selections in the fold and a lot of these guys are out there playing already. It feels like success at this point. It doesn’t mean we’re going to stop. And if we can get a couple more kids signed, it’ll be a bonus.

Remaining signings: I believe we have five unsigned high-school draft picks remaining. There’s also some college players remaining. At this point, I can’t say for certain that any of these players are going to sign. But we selected every one of them with the intention of signing them.